“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?”
― Gerard Way

“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
― Lady Gaga

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Where words leave off, music begins.”
― Heinrich Heine

“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson

“Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
― Bob Dylan

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness